Sentences with phrase «orbiting nearby bright stars»
The craft will measure the sizes of known planets — from those a little bigger than Earth to ones that are roughly Neptune - sized — orbiting nearby bright stars.
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The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is designed to spot planets orbiting nearby bright stars
Not exact matches
UP, UP AND AWAY NASA's TESS telescope launches from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on April 18 on a mission to search for planets orbiting nearby, bright stars.
One nearby example, the bright star Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion, is at least as wide as the orbit of Mars.
Following a novel, looping path that gives it an unobstructed view, the orbiting TESS will scan the sky for planets around nearby bright stars.
First, planets like our own orbit relatively close to their stars, where bright illumination more than compensates for the nearby glare.
«It shows that astronomers are working their best to optimize techniques to work on smaller and smaller planets, and that nature has once again delivered on a fascinating planet orbiting a bright nearby star.»
On 16 April, the agency plans to launch the US$ 337 - million Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which will scrutinize 200,000 nearby bright stars for signs of orbiting planets.
But the remarkably still air on Mount Wilson — the same climatic condition that keeps LA choked in smog — promises some of the world's sharpest images of the Sun, nearby bright stars, and any planets found orbiting them.
Both orbit bright nearby stars that could reveal their atmospheres, and are at the right distances for both to host liquid water.
If planets are everywhere, then it is time for us to find the planets that are closest to us orbiting bright nearby stars, because these will be the touchstone system.»
It is the first planet detected by the Gemini Planet Imager, or GPI, which was designed to discover and analyze faint, young planets orbiting bright, nearby stars.
TESS is expected to launch in 2017 with its primary mission to monitor the 500,000 brightest and nearby stars for the signs of planets on orbits less than 30 days.